Sir William Gowers | |
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Born | William Richard Gowers 20 March 1845 |
Died | 4 May 1915 | (aged 70)
Alma mater | University of London |
Children | Ernest Gowers |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neurology |
Sir William Richard Gowers FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; 20 March 1845 – 4 May 1915) was a British neurologist, described by Macdonald Critchley in 1949 as "probably the greatest clinical neurologist of all time".[1] He practised at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptics, Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery) from 1870–1910, ran a consultancy from his home in Queen Anne Street, W1, and lectured at University College Hospital. He published extensively, but is probably best remembered for his two-volume Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System (1886, 1888), affectionately referred to at Queen Square as the Bible of Neurology.[2]